Verand for medical practices Internal-reviewed pack

SEO and AI visibility for medical, dental and mental-health practices, with HIPAA and the FTC switched on.

Name your board during setup and Verand assigns the HIPAA + FTC pack. From then on every draft is checked against it before it can leave, and a person at your practice presses publish. It cannot publish for you. Ever.

Sources

Clinical claims need a clinical source.

At least 4 per article, 2 from the primary tier: CDC, NIH, FDA, MedlinePlus, PubMed, the AMA, the ADA and the CFR. The YMYL floor, always onYMYL: Your Money or Your LifeGoogle's name for content that can affect a reader's health, finances, safety or legal position. Search quality raters hold those pages to a higher bar for accuracy, sourcing and author expertise, so thin or unsourced pages in these niches are the first to lose visibility.Verand’s YMYL floor is the set of rules every regulated site carries, whichever regulator it answers to. floor bans Wikipedia, Reddit and Quora.
Your state
board
How it works

Four steps, and no patient detail ever leaves the building.

HIPAA (HHS OCR) Confirmed
FTC health claims Confirmed
State medical or dental board Confirmed
01

Name your board

HIPAA, your state medical or dental board, the AMA or the ADA: any of them assigns the medical pack. Declare "not regulated" and the truth-in-advertising floor still gates you.

Draft · 55 checksPass 7/7
02

Every draft hits the gate

Research, brief, draft in your voice, then the checks. A blocked draft stays in Verand with the sentence marked.

Draft in WordPress Landed
Publish Yours to press
03

You publish

A draft in WordPress or a pull request on your repo. Nothing goes live without a person at your practice.

Google #5 ↑2
ChatGPT Cited
Claude Cited
Gemini Not yet
Perplexity Cited
AI Overviews Cited
04

Track where you rank

Daily positions in Google, and whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews cite your practice when someone asks a health question.

Compliance gate

Written for your practice.
Stopped by the FTC.

The governing body, the required disclaimer and the banned claims load from the medical pack. The draft is written around them, in your voice and with your practice's facts, then the gate reads the finished HTML and stops the one sentence the FTC would not let you publish.

55 checks on every draft. Compliance is a gate, not a score: Pass or Blocked, and a hard rule has no override. Name your board at onboarding and this pack loads the same way. Pause the demo, scrub it, read the why.

Brand Hubus-hipaa-medical v2.0.0

Governing body

HHSHHS OCR · HIPAA 45 CFR §164.508FTC · Act §5 and §12United StatesUnited States

Base YMYL Foundation, US Medical / Dental (HIPAA + FTC) v2.0.0. Researched from the regulators' own text and tested by Verand. Not reviewed by a licensed attorney. Enforced automatically, not editable here.

Experience & Facts0 pinned1 pinned2 pinned

We see about sixty patients a day across two providers.

via Added manually·Mar 30, 2026

Most adult acne patients we see have already tried at least two over-the-counter products.

via Added manually·Jun 3, 2026
EditorDraft · Cedar Row Dermatology
adult-acne-what-actually-changes-the-outcomeDraft · autosavedPublish blocked

Adult acne: what actually changes the outcome

Adult acne responds to a plan, not a product. Most patients we see have already tried at least two over-the-counter products, and the ones that help are the ones used consistently for twelve weeks.

At Cedar Row we start with a review of what you have tried, then choose one prescription pathway and one in-office option, and we check progress at week six.

Our laser protocol delivers a permanent cure for adult acne in three sessions, with no maintenance visits.
Report Card55 checks
Three dials and one gateRe-validating on save1 blocker
Compliance · gatePass · 5/5Blocked · 4/5
✔
Required disclaimeri
✔✘
Banned claimsi

hipaa-med-bc-cure · "…permanent cure…"

✔
Citation densityi
✔
Source qualityi
✔
HIPAA (45 CFR §164.508)i
Why it was blockedus-hipaa-medical 2.0.0
Hard tier · no overridehipaa-med-bc-cure

Content claims a guaranteed, permanent, or absolute cure or outcome. Health-outcome claims must be substantiated and must not promise guaranteed or permanent results. Remove or qualify the claim with realistic, substantiated language.

"Our laser protocol delivers a permanent cure for adult acne in three sessions, with no maintenance visits."
Basis
FTC Act §5 (deception + substantiation); FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance; state medical/dental board advertising rules (e.g. TX 22 TAC §164.3)
Fix
State outcomes as possible, not certain, 'may help reduce' rather than 'cures' or 'guaranteed results'.
Disclaimer
The pack requires hipaa-med-disc-not-advice ("Medical Disclaimer", before sources section). It is in the draft, so that row stays green.
United StatesIn the U.S.
HHS Office for Civil Rights, FTC
CanadaIn Canada
the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO, CPSBC, CMQ) plus PIPEDA / the Office of the Privacy Commissioner · on the roadmap

US Medical / Dental (HIPAA + FTC) v2.0.0 · researched from the regulators' own text and tested by Verand · not reviewed by a licensed attorney · your counsel confirms applicability; not legal advice.

Every plan: the truth-in-advertising floor and 55 checks. Regulator packs like us-reg-d: every plan. Researched from the regulators' own text and tested by Verand. Not reviewed by a licensed attorney.

Cedar Row Dermatology is the home page's example practice. The rules, ids and disclaimer are the shipped pack's; the practice, its facts and the draft are illustrative.

1 The pack

Tick two boxes, and HIPAA arrives with the pack.

Name the boards you answer to. Verand maps them to the HIPAA + FTC pack and the YMYLYMYL: Your Money or Your LifeGoogle's name for content that can affect a reader's health, finances, safety or legal position. Search quality raters hold those pages to a higher bar for accuracy, sourcing and author expertise, so thin or unsourced pages in these niches are the first to lose visibility.Verand’s YMYL floor is the set of rules every regulated site carries, whichever regulator it answers to. floor rides underneath it whatever you pick.

The pack's rules go into the drafting prompt, so most drafts never hit the gate at all.
The same rules run as deterministic checks on the finished HTML. The prompt is a courtesy; the validator is the law.
Editing the list can never switch a gate off. Removing a body re-runs the assignment; the floor stays.
Onboarding · Step 3 · Governing bodies
IndustryMedical / Dental
CountryUnited States
BodiesHHS OCR (HIPAA)FTCState board
Assignedus-hipaa-medical, internal-reviewedbase-ymyl floor, always onDisclaimer, citations, schema and the PHI check required
Confirmed.The deep crawl of your site starts now.
2 The gate

No draft reaches a patient before you have read it.

The validator reads every draft before anyone else does. Is there a cure or guaranteed-outcome claim, is the medical disclaimer in, are the figures cited to a primary source, is there a patient in the text who never signed an authorization. One screen, in words.

Pass or Blocked on the gate, with 5 of 5 beside it.
Anything flagged links to the sentence, with a suggested rewrite.
No schedule, routine or robot can press publish for you. There is no setting that turns that off.
Draft · Dental implants vs bridges: what recovery looks likeBlocked · 4 of 5
hipaa-med-bc-cure · guaranteed, permanent or absolute outcome · hard
…the crown is fitted once the post has integrated, and
- an implant is a permanent fix, guaranteed to last a lifetime.
+ with good care an implant can last many years; we review each one at the annual visit.
A bridge, by contrast, relies on the neighbouring teeth…
BasisFTC Act §5   Health Products Compliance Guidance   State board rulesNo override on this tier
Apply the fix, re-validate.Then it is Pass, 5 of 5, and yours to publish.
3 Keeping it current

Guidance moves, and your pages are offered the update.

Health content ages on a calendar too: vaccine seasons, screening guidelines with a year in the title, plan deductibles, FSA deadlines. The year-rollover routine reads every live page, finds the dated figures and recommendations, and proposes each change as a line edit you approve or reject. Nothing is rewritten wholesale.

Per occurrence, on the live page, applied only after you approve.
Runs on every plan. So does the compliance gate, the full crawl and every routine.
Year rollover · /blog/when-to-get-your-flu-shot3 proposed
Occurrence 1 of 3
- For the 2025-2026 season the CDC recommends vaccination by the end of October
+ For the 2026-2027 season the CDC recommends [confirm]
though a shot later in the season still…
Recommendations you have not confirmed stay marked.The routine never invents a date or a figure.
4 Being the answer

Patients ask assistants first now. Verand reads the answer.

Verand puts the questions patients actually type to ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode the questions your prospective patients ask before they book, and Perplexity and Claude once a week. Each answer is read and logged: whether you were cited, which page, in what position, and which practices were named instead. The totals are kept per assistant.

Prompts written for a practice at setup: adult acne, implants vs bridges, when to see a therapist, what a first visit costs, who to see in your city.
One record per prompt per assistant. The share-of-voice number is computed against the competitors you track.
25 to 200 prompts by plan, pooled across your sites.
ChatGPT
Gemini
AI Overviews
AI Mode
Perplexity
Claude
Recorded ChatGPT · today 09:02
Cited
Page/blog/adult-acne-what-actually-changes-the-outcome
Position#2 of 3Also cited
Share of voice by engine

Cedar Row Dermatology and four tracked competitors · last 14 days

Day 1
Across six engines
Share of brand mentions across active prompts
The answer · a patient's question on ChatGPT, read and recorded0:00 / 0:30
What the pack holds

Thirteen rules and four requirements, exactly as they ship.

Below is the pack exactly as a practice sees it in Brand Hub, rule for rule. The ids are the ones you will see on a blocked draft, and the list is read-only: editing it can never switch a gate off.

Brand Hub · From your compliance pack · us-hipaa-medical 2.0.0 + base-ymyl 2.0.0Internal-reviewed
RuleBasisTierId
Guaranteed, permanent or absolute cure or outcomeFTC Act §5, deception and substantiation · FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance · state medical and dental board advertising rulesBlockshipaa-med-bc-cure
Guaranteed resultsFTC Act §5 · 16 CFR 255Blocksymyl-guaranteed-results
Guaranteed financial returnFTC Act §5Blocksymyl-guaranteed-returns
"Risk-free" or "zero risk"FTC Act §5 · overridable with a logged written reasonBlocksymyl-risk-free · ymyl-zero-risk
"You can't lose", get-rich-quick languageFTC Act §5 · FTC "Making Money" guidanceBlocksymyl-cant-lose · ymyl-get-rich-quick
"Your money is safe", "principal protected" without the conditionsFTC Act §5 · overridable with a logged written reasonBlocksymyl-principal-safety
"We have never lost money", "double your money"FTC Act §5 · overridable with a logged written reasonBlocksymyl-never-lost-record · ymyl-double-your-money
"Most patients make a complete recovery" stated as a prognosisFTC Act §5 · Health Products Compliance Guidance · overridable with a logged written reasonBlockshipaa-med-bc-recovery-prognosis
Self-laudatory superiority ("best dentist", "#1 clinic") or an unqualified "painless"ADA marketing guidance · state board advertising rules (TX 22 TAC §164.3(b)) · overridable with a logged written reasonBlockshipaa-med-bc-superiority
Universal "everyone should" recommendationsFTC Act §5, misleading by omissionWarnsymyl-everyone-should
Your own banned claimsAnything your state board bans that the pack does not. Added in Brand Hub, gated like a pack rule.Blockssite-owned
Medical disclaimer · 4 citations, 2 primary · Article schema · the HIPAA validatorRequired on every article. Primary tier: cdc.gov nih.gov fda.gov medlineplus.gov PubMed, ecfr.gov ama-assn.org ada.orgRequiredv12 · v15 · v14 · v19
Read-only.Validated against HHS and FTC rules; researched from the regulators' own text and tested by Verand. Not reviewed by a licensed attorney. Your counsel confirms applicability. Not legal advice. HIPAA is enforced by the v19 validator, which reads the draft for protected health information; it is not a banned phrase. The pack cites the FTC Endorsement Guides and the reviews rule (16 CFR 465) as sources; what gates a draft is the rows above.
Integrations

Works with the platform your practice already pays for.

WordPress and static sites on GitHub today, with Search Console, Analytics and Business Profile behind every audit. Many practice website platforms are one of those two underneath. The rest is on the roadmap, and says so.

See every integration →
Built
WordPress
GitHub
Search Console
Analytics 4
Business Profile
Claude
ChatGPT
WordPress
GitHub
Search Console
Analytics 4
Business Profile
Claude
ChatGPT
Roadmap
ComingWebflow
ComingWix
ComingHubSpot CMS
ComingGhost
PossibleShopify
ComingWebflow
ComingWix
ComingHubSpot CMS
ComingGhost
PossibleShopify
WebToMedConnectsWordPress underneath, so the WordPress integration reaches it. The capability probe reports what the site will accept before anything is written.
OfficiteDoes not connectA walled platform with no content API. There is nothing for Verand to connect to, and we say so rather than chip it as coming.
Everything elseSend the URLVerand detects what a site is built on when you connect it. WordPress or a Git repo connects. A walled platform does not, and you will be told which yours is before you start.
What doing this properly takes

Nine jobs, and none of them are seeing patients.

Nine distinct jobs stand between a topic and a published page. Verand absorbs eight; the clinician keeps the ninth. Most practices are not choosing between tools for these; they are choosing between doing none of it and an agency that has never read the FTC's health-claims guidance.

Writing in the practice's voice, with the practice's facts

A clinician, after hours. Or an agency writing for any practice.
Drafted from your knowledge base and your positions, with a named clinician as author.

Picking the right target topics

Whatever patients asked about that week.
A topical map, competitor gaps and Search Console opportunities, ranked, with a brief behind each.

Writing for search engines and the AI assistants

A title tag, if the website builder had a field for it.
55 checks on every article: structure, schema, answer blocks, the terms the top results share.

Checking every sentence against HIPAA and the FTC

Nobody, or the same clinician rereading the post before it goes up.
Five hard rules, seven review rules and the PHI check on every draft. Blocked drafts do not leave.

Citing primary sources

Rarely. A link to WebMD if someone remembers.
Four citations required, two from cdc.gov, nih.gov, fda.gov, MedlinePlus, PubMed, the AMA or the ADA.

Keeping seasonal and guideline dates current

A scramble each flu season, or the 2024 schedule stays up.
Year rollover proposes every dated figure and recommendation as a line edit for approval.

Knowing where the practice ranks, and whether assistants name it

Search Console, opened at quarter end. The assistants, never.
Daily positions, and a record of every answer across six assistants.

Business Profile, citations, local schema

Set up once, years ago, by whoever built the site.
Audited on every crawl, generated where missing, kept consistent.

The one job that stays yours

Reading the draft and pressing publish. Everything above exists to make that five minutes instead of two hours. No schedule, routine or connector can press it for you.

Pass · 5 of 5PublishYours to press
At most practices todayOn Verand
What most practices are quoted instead
$5,000a month, typical content and SEO agency retainer
1 job in full, 3 in part, 5 not at all
  • Writing and publishing
  • Target topics from your site's data sometimes
  • Search and AI-assistant optimization search only
  • Your voice, your first-hand facts generic
  • Checked against HIPAA + the FTC
  • Primary-source citations required
  • Seasonal rollover of live pages
  • Rank and AI-visibility tracking
  • Publishing only with your approval usually
33×the price of Starter, for half the list
Verand Starter
$149a month, every routine and the compliance gate included
All nine. The ninth stays yours, by design
  • Writing and publishing
  • Target topics from your site's data
  • Search and AI-assistant optimization both
  • Your voice, your first-hand facts
  • Checked against HIPAA + the FTC every draft
  • Primary-source citations required 4 per article
  • Seasonal rollover of live pages
  • Rank and AI-visibility tracking daily
  • Publishing only with your approval always

The retainer figure is a typical quote for a content and SEO agency serving professional practices, not a survey result. Starter is $149 a month billed monthly.

In this section

HIPAA and the FTC, answered separately.

The question

Can doctors, dentists and therapists use AI to write blog posts?

Yes, and the rules apply to the output exactly as they would to your own. What that means in practice.

/medical-practices/using-ai-to-write-content
The rule

HIPAA marketing rules for practice content

45 CFR §164.508, what counts as marketing, and why a patient story needs an authorization before it can appear.

/medical-practices/hipaa-marketing-rules
The rule

FTC health-claims substantiation

The rule behind the cure gate: what the FTC requires before an outcome claim can appear, and why the pack's three banned claims are FTC and board rules, not HIPAA ones.

/medical-practices/ftc-health-claims
The test

Is a medical blog marketing under HIPAA?

Where the line falls between education and marketing, and what changes when a post crosses it.

/medical-practices/what-counts-as-advertising
The checklist

Medical blog disclaimer requirements

What every article carries: the five things the pack's medical disclaimer must say, and where it sits.

/medical-practices/disclaimer-requirements
Local

Local SEO for medical and dental practices

The Business Profile, the citations and the MedicalBusiness or Dentist schema, generated and kept consistent.

/medical-practices/local-seo
Free tool

HIPAA Marketing Rules Checker

Paste a page, ad or email and run the pack's 13 rules, from cure and guarantee claims to superiority, plus the medical disclaimer. Free, no signup. It checks your copy, not your tracking pixels.

/tools/hipaa-marketing-rules-checker

1,032,365 active physicians in the US in 2024 (AAMC, U.S. Physician Workforce Data Dashboard, 2025 key findings). 1,082,187 actively licensed physicians (FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians, 2024). 205,088 professionally active dentists (ADA Health Policy Institute, 2025). Validated against HHS and FTC rules; researched from the regulators' own text and tested by Verand. Not reviewed by a licensed attorney. Your counsel confirms applicability. Not legal advice.

Questions

What practice managers ask on the first call.

Who reviewed the rules, what the HIPAA check actually reads, and whether your website platform connects.

Is the pack attorney-verified?

No. It is researched from the regulators' own text and tested by Verand, not reviewed by a licensed attorney, and it is labelled that way everywhere it appears. The hard gate fires identically whatever the label says. Your counsel confirms applicability to your practice and state.

How many practices does this actually apply to?

The AAMC counts 1,032,365 active physicians in the United States in 2024, the FSMB's 2024 census 1,082,187 actively licensed ones, and the ADA Health Policy Institute 205,088 professionally active dentists in 2025. Every one of them publishes under the FTC's health-claims rules and HIPAA, which is what this pack encodes. The pack is the national baseline; your state board's additions are documented and, where not yet shipped, yours to add in Brand Hub.

What does the HIPAA check actually read?

The finished draft, never your records. HIPAA is enforced by a validator, v19-hipaa-check, not by a banned phrase: it reads the article for protected health information, a patient identified alongside a condition, a testimonial with a date of service, a caption that names someone, and blocks the draft if it finds any. Version 1 makes no exceptions, because Verand cannot verify that a written authorization under 45 CFR §164.508 exists. A patient story you are authorized to tell is yours to add after the gate, by hand.

What about my state board, and claims like "best dentist" or "painless"?

Superiority claims and an unqualified "painless" are the pack's review-tier rule, hipaa-med-bc-superiority, sourced from ADA marketing guidance and Texas board rules: held on the draft with the sentence marked, and released only with a written, logged reason. The cure rule is the hard one, with no override. State-by-state overlays are documented and not yet shipped. Anything your board bans outright that the pack does not, you add in Brand Hub as your own banned claim and it hard-gates like a pack rule.

WebToMed, Officite, and the other practice website platforms?

WebToMed is WordPress underneath, so Verand connects through the WordPress integration and the capability probe tells you what the site will accept before anything is written. Officite is a walled platform with no content API, so it does not connect, and we say so. Anything else, send the URL: Verand detects what it is built on before you start.

Customer stories

Operators growing with Verand.

repliers.43%of AI answers, up from 11%

How Repliers went from 11% to 43% of AI answers

“Every tool we tried told us how visible we were. Verand told us that and why we weren’t. It listed 60 developer questions where a competitor’s API got named instead of ours, drafted the answer to each one in our engineers’ voice, and we went from 11% of AI answers to 43% in two months. One of our best inbound channels now is a chatbot.”
Pat Arlia
Co-Founder & COO, Repliers
oneday4×AI citations

How Oneday opened a new client channel through ChatGPT

“Our clients find us by asking ChatGPT whether someone with their diagnosis can get life insurance. A year ago we weren’t in that answer. Amongst many things, Verand built a page for every condition we cover, checked every claim against the rules before it could publish, and our citations on ChatGPT and Gemini are up 4×. New clients tell us where they found us. It’s ChatGPT.”
Josh Teixeira
CEO, Oneday
The Mill Gardens Apartment Homes46%of ChatGPT answers

How a Georgia rental community shows up in nearly half of ChatGPT’s answers

“Renters ask ChatGPT what it’s like to live near Robins Air Force Base. We’re in that answer now, with a link. Verand flagged that our address was written three different ways across the site, it generated the LocalBusiness schema, it wrote the Bonaire and Warner Robins guides, and it tracked which assistants picked them up. A property with 60 units shouldn’t be able to do this. We did it in a quarter.”
Marco Canonaco
Co-Founder, The Mill Gardens Apartments
Verand for medical practices

Patient content HIPAA allows, found in AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Claude. Health claims checked first.

Written from your clinical experience, without a patient in it. Found on Google and across six assistants. Every draft stops at the HIPAA marketing and FTC health-claim checks, then at a clinician at your practice.

Seven days, every feature unlocked, one click to cancel.

Compliance gate
Draft, paragraph 3

The 2019 fund returned 14.2% net to investors, and this offering carries guaranteed returns of 12 to 15% over a five year hold.

Base rules for every regulated siteHard rule

A guaranteed return is deceptive in any financial context and can be a securities violation. Say targeted or projected return, with its basis.

Ruleymyl-guaranteed-returns
Packbase-ymyl
BasisFTC Act §5; SEC Marketing Rule 206(4)-1; Reg D anti-fraud provisions
ChatGPT
Gemini
AI Overviews
AI Mode
Perplexity
Claude
Recorded ChatGPT · today 09:02
Cited
Pagewillowdaleequity.com/blog/syndication-minimums
Position#2 of 3Also cited
Share of voice by engine

Willowdale Equity and four competitors · 14 days

YouEquityMultipleBAM CapitalOrigin InvestmentsAshcroft Capital
Day 1
Across six engines31%You 27%14%11%8%
Share of brand mentions across active prompts
The answer · a buyer's question on ChatGPT, read and recorded0:00 / 0:30
Verand

Content built to rank in Google and get cited by ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiClaude, with every claim checked before it goes live.

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